Linguistics and the Third Reich - Mother-Tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Whose History?; Chapter 2 The Defence of Cultural Diversity; Chapter 3 Academic Politics; Chapter 4 Etymology as Collective Therapy; Chapter 5 The Strange Case of Sonderführer Weisgerber; Chapter 6 ‘A Complicated Young Man with a Complicated Fate, in a Complicated Time’; Chapter 7 Yiddish Linguistics and National Socialism; Chapter 8 Vitalist Linguistics; Chapter 9 Linguistics, Race and the Horror of Assimilation;

About the author

Christopher M. Hutton currently teaches linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Hong Kong. He previously taught Yiddish Studies at the University of Texas, USA and at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, UK.

Summary

This book is an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the politics of Hitler's state and the history of modern linguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Hutton, Hutton Christopher
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.2014
• EAN: 9780415757591
• ISBN: 978-0-415-75759-1
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Linguistics, HISTORY / Europe / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Political oppression and persecution